Presented By: Donia Human Rights Center
Donia Human Rights Center 10th Anniversary Celebration
Steve Ratner, Michigan Law School; Ambassador Susan Page Ford School and Michigan Law School; Emilia Yang, Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design; Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Stanford University
Please join us to celebrate 10 year of the Donia Human Rights Center! This celebration will consist of a student panel titled, "Back from the Field: Donia Human Rights Student Interns and Fellows Presentation," and a panel of faculty from U-M and Stanford University titled, "The Relevance of Human Rights Today: Perspectives from Law, Social Science, Arts, and Diplomacy." A reception will follow.
Student Panel
Back from the Field: Donia Human Rights Student Interns and Fellows Presentation
Chelsea Hyppolite
Intern,
African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests
Edéa, Cameroon
Through the Human Rights and Environmental Justice in Edéa Cameroon Internship Program, Chelsea Hyppolite (she/her) was the Communications Intern for The African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF), a nonprofit organization with the mission of advancing women’s rights across 20 West and Central African nations through direct community involvement. Chelsea is a Senior majoring in Political Science and minoring in AfroAmerican and African Studies. Chelsea's career aspiration is to be a human rights attorney in nonprofit spaces.
Elizabeth Foley
Intern,
Social Change Initiative,
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Elizabeth Foley is a senior at the Ford School of Public Policy, minoring in Economics. Her academic and professional focus is on development and human rights.
Hana Manjusak
Robert J. Donia Graduate Student Fellow,
Bosnia and Herzgovina
Hana is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability. Her doctoral research examines the political ecologies of war and peace, using landmine clearance in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a lens to explore the enduring political and environmental legacies of armed conflict. Her experience spans academic and policy-oriented research, including work with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United Nations, and the Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS).
Jainyn Boyd
Intern,
Museum of Memory and Human Rights
Santiago, Chile
I am a Donia Human Rights Center Fellow graduating this winter with a double major in International Studies and Spanish. My academic and research interests include gender-based violence, decolonization, LGBTQ• rights, and gender equality. This past summer, I participated in the DHRC Fellowship with the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile, where I developed frameworks for revising museum documentation to more accurately represent the lived experiences of LGBTQ Chileans before, during, and after the Pinochet dictatorship.
Faculty Panel
The Relevance of Human Rights Today: Perspectives from Law, Social Science, Arts, and Diplomacy
Emilia Yang
Assistant Professor of Art and Design
University of Michigan
Emilia Yang is a Central American artist, memory organizer, and researcher based in Detroit. Her creative practice utilizes expanded media to create community-based feminist, anti-racist, and transformative justice memory projects and collective futures with people from Central America, its diasporas, and beyond.
She serves as the Director of AMA y No Olvida, Memory Museum Against Impunity, a community memory transmedia initiative created in collaboration with the Association Mother of April (AMA), an organization of families of victims of state violence in Nicaragua.
Her artworks have been exhibited in international spaces such as the Resistance Biennial, Guatemala; the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MADC), Costa Rica; Casa América and the Museum and Vanguard Art Center Neomudéjar, Spain; Le Commun Contemporary Art Building, Geneva; and the Games and New Media Summit at Tribeca Film Festival.
She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. www.emiliayang.org
Kiyoteru Tsutsui
Former DHRC Director (2016-2020)
Professor of Sociology
Stanford University
Kiyoteru Tsutsui is the Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor and Senior Fellow in Japanese Studies at Shorenstein APARC, the Director of APARC and the Japan Program at APARC, a senior fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Professor of Sociology, all at Stanford University.
Prior to his appointment at Stanford in July 2020, Tsutsui was Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Japanese Studies, and Director of the Donia Human Rights Center at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Tsutsui’s research interests lie in political/comparative sociology, social movements, globalization, human rights, and Japanese society. More specifically, he has conducted (1) cross-national quantitative analyses on how human rights ideas and instruments have expanded globally and impacted local politics and (2) qualitative case studies of the impact of global human rights on Japanese politics. His current projects examine (a) changing conceptions of nationhood and minority rights in national constitutions and in practice, (b) populism and the future of democracy, (c) experimental surveys on public understanding about human rights, (d) campus policies and practices around human rights, (e) global expansion of corporate social responsibility and its impact on corporate behavior, and (f) Japan’s public diplomacy and perceptions about Japan in the world.
His research on the globalization of human rights and its impact on local politics has appeared in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Problems, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and other social science journals. His book publications include Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan (Oxford University Press 2018), and two co-edited volumes Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World (with Alwyn Lim, Cambridge University Press 2015) and The Courteous Power: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Indo-Pacific Era (with John Ciorciari, University of Michigan Press, forthcoming). He has been a recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, National Science Foundation grants, the SSRC/CGP Abe Fellowship, Stanford Japan Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, and other grants as well as awards from American Sociological Association sections on Global and Transnational Sociology (2010, 2013, 2019), Human Rights (2017, 2019), Asia and Asian America (2018, 2019), Collective Behavior and Social Movements (2018), and Political Sociology (2019).
Tsutsui received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Kyoto University and earned an additional master’s degree and PhD from Stanford’s Department of Sociology in 2002.
Steven Ratner
Former DHRC Director (2020-2026)
Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor
Michigan Law
Steven R. Ratner is the Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and former Director of the Donia Human Rights Center (2020-2026). He teaches and writes in the field of public international law on a range of issues, including war and peace, human rights, foreign investment, the United Nations (UN), territorial and ethnic-based disputes, and business and human rights. He is also interested in the intersection of international law and political philosophy and other theoretical issues. He has served on three high-level United Nations panels investigating human rights violations -- in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Ethiopia.
Amb. Susan D. Page
Director, Weiser Diplomacy Center;
Professor of Practice,
Ford School & Michigan Law
Ambassador Susan D. Page is a seasoned diplomat with extensive experience in international relations, conflict resolution, and human rights advocacy. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, an Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, a member of the Association of Black American Ambassadors, and serves on various boards, including The Carter Center Board of Trustees, the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area, Road Scholar, and Lex Collective (Formerly Global Diligence Alliance).
Ambassador Page had a distinguished diplomatic career, including serving as the first U.S. Ambassador to the newly independent Republic of South Sudan and as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Haiti. In addition to working at the U.S. Department of State in senior leadership positions such as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Ambassador Page also served as a regional legal adviser and foreign service officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), held high-level appointments with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), and with the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), where she played an instrumental role in the peace negotiations and drafting of the peace agreement for Sudan that resulted in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement for Sudan (CPA).
If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at [email protected]. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
Student Panel
Back from the Field: Donia Human Rights Student Interns and Fellows Presentation
Chelsea Hyppolite
Intern,
African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests
Edéa, Cameroon
Through the Human Rights and Environmental Justice in Edéa Cameroon Internship Program, Chelsea Hyppolite (she/her) was the Communications Intern for The African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF), a nonprofit organization with the mission of advancing women’s rights across 20 West and Central African nations through direct community involvement. Chelsea is a Senior majoring in Political Science and minoring in AfroAmerican and African Studies. Chelsea's career aspiration is to be a human rights attorney in nonprofit spaces.
Elizabeth Foley
Intern,
Social Change Initiative,
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Elizabeth Foley is a senior at the Ford School of Public Policy, minoring in Economics. Her academic and professional focus is on development and human rights.
Hana Manjusak
Robert J. Donia Graduate Student Fellow,
Bosnia and Herzgovina
Hana is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability. Her doctoral research examines the political ecologies of war and peace, using landmine clearance in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a lens to explore the enduring political and environmental legacies of armed conflict. Her experience spans academic and policy-oriented research, including work with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United Nations, and the Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS).
Jainyn Boyd
Intern,
Museum of Memory and Human Rights
Santiago, Chile
I am a Donia Human Rights Center Fellow graduating this winter with a double major in International Studies and Spanish. My academic and research interests include gender-based violence, decolonization, LGBTQ• rights, and gender equality. This past summer, I participated in the DHRC Fellowship with the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile, where I developed frameworks for revising museum documentation to more accurately represent the lived experiences of LGBTQ Chileans before, during, and after the Pinochet dictatorship.
Faculty Panel
The Relevance of Human Rights Today: Perspectives from Law, Social Science, Arts, and Diplomacy
Emilia Yang
Assistant Professor of Art and Design
University of Michigan
Emilia Yang is a Central American artist, memory organizer, and researcher based in Detroit. Her creative practice utilizes expanded media to create community-based feminist, anti-racist, and transformative justice memory projects and collective futures with people from Central America, its diasporas, and beyond.
She serves as the Director of AMA y No Olvida, Memory Museum Against Impunity, a community memory transmedia initiative created in collaboration with the Association Mother of April (AMA), an organization of families of victims of state violence in Nicaragua.
Her artworks have been exhibited in international spaces such as the Resistance Biennial, Guatemala; the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MADC), Costa Rica; Casa América and the Museum and Vanguard Art Center Neomudéjar, Spain; Le Commun Contemporary Art Building, Geneva; and the Games and New Media Summit at Tribeca Film Festival.
She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. www.emiliayang.org
Kiyoteru Tsutsui
Former DHRC Director (2016-2020)
Professor of Sociology
Stanford University
Kiyoteru Tsutsui is the Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor and Senior Fellow in Japanese Studies at Shorenstein APARC, the Director of APARC and the Japan Program at APARC, a senior fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Professor of Sociology, all at Stanford University.
Prior to his appointment at Stanford in July 2020, Tsutsui was Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Japanese Studies, and Director of the Donia Human Rights Center at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Tsutsui’s research interests lie in political/comparative sociology, social movements, globalization, human rights, and Japanese society. More specifically, he has conducted (1) cross-national quantitative analyses on how human rights ideas and instruments have expanded globally and impacted local politics and (2) qualitative case studies of the impact of global human rights on Japanese politics. His current projects examine (a) changing conceptions of nationhood and minority rights in national constitutions and in practice, (b) populism and the future of democracy, (c) experimental surveys on public understanding about human rights, (d) campus policies and practices around human rights, (e) global expansion of corporate social responsibility and its impact on corporate behavior, and (f) Japan’s public diplomacy and perceptions about Japan in the world.
His research on the globalization of human rights and its impact on local politics has appeared in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Problems, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and other social science journals. His book publications include Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan (Oxford University Press 2018), and two co-edited volumes Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World (with Alwyn Lim, Cambridge University Press 2015) and The Courteous Power: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Indo-Pacific Era (with John Ciorciari, University of Michigan Press, forthcoming). He has been a recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, National Science Foundation grants, the SSRC/CGP Abe Fellowship, Stanford Japan Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, and other grants as well as awards from American Sociological Association sections on Global and Transnational Sociology (2010, 2013, 2019), Human Rights (2017, 2019), Asia and Asian America (2018, 2019), Collective Behavior and Social Movements (2018), and Political Sociology (2019).
Tsutsui received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Kyoto University and earned an additional master’s degree and PhD from Stanford’s Department of Sociology in 2002.
Steven Ratner
Former DHRC Director (2020-2026)
Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor
Michigan Law
Steven R. Ratner is the Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and former Director of the Donia Human Rights Center (2020-2026). He teaches and writes in the field of public international law on a range of issues, including war and peace, human rights, foreign investment, the United Nations (UN), territorial and ethnic-based disputes, and business and human rights. He is also interested in the intersection of international law and political philosophy and other theoretical issues. He has served on three high-level United Nations panels investigating human rights violations -- in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Ethiopia.
Amb. Susan D. Page
Director, Weiser Diplomacy Center;
Professor of Practice,
Ford School & Michigan Law
Ambassador Susan D. Page is a seasoned diplomat with extensive experience in international relations, conflict resolution, and human rights advocacy. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, an Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, a member of the Association of Black American Ambassadors, and serves on various boards, including The Carter Center Board of Trustees, the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area, Road Scholar, and Lex Collective (Formerly Global Diligence Alliance).
Ambassador Page had a distinguished diplomatic career, including serving as the first U.S. Ambassador to the newly independent Republic of South Sudan and as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Haiti. In addition to working at the U.S. Department of State in senior leadership positions such as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Ambassador Page also served as a regional legal adviser and foreign service officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), held high-level appointments with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), and with the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), where she played an instrumental role in the peace negotiations and drafting of the peace agreement for Sudan that resulted in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement for Sudan (CPA).
If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at [email protected]. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
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